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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 08 2014, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-distros-than-I-know-what-to-with dept.

Potato Battery writes:

"ZDNet has posted an overview comparing Debian and three first- and second-generation derivatives. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is derived directly from Debian Testing, unlike its more famous Ubuntu-derived relative; SolydXK is somewhat of a spinoff from LMDE; and Tanglu is a new offering based on Debian Testing and the Tanglu development team expects to provide a lot of the testing, integration, packaging and distribution of patches and updates to avoid the long development delays and freezes that Debian goes through in the development/distribution cycle.

Everyone knows Debian, and I've dabbled with the Ubuntu-related Mint, but the other two were new to me. Has anyone put them through their paces?"

 
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  • (Score: 3) by Maow on Saturday March 08 2014, @07:54PM

    by Maow (8) on Saturday March 08 2014, @07:54PM (#13287) Homepage

    I know it's not a popular opinion, but I do feel that there are just too many distros available and would personally prefer it if more effort was put into polishing / improving the main ones that are well established.

    I am not knocking anyone for putting together their own distros, I'm sure it's a fascinating learning experience and probably scratches an itch, so to speak.

    I simply wish some of the enormous effort went elsewhere, that's all.

    Said as someone who's a dedicated Linux user for many years.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jt on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:09PM

    by jt (2890) on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:09PM (#13323)

    It is an increasingly popular opinion. Too many distros are just Ubuntu with a new wallpaper. A fun project for the creator but no real point for anyone else. Much of the best open source software was initially created to 'scratch an itch'; sadly the itch is sometimes just a desire to be a project leader rather than to build something.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by rufty on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:10AM

    by rufty (381) on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:10AM (#13368)